Wayback Whensday – Jim, Ern, Fred & Rose
Featuring Jimmy Swinnerton, Ernie Bushmiller, Fred Opper, and Rose O’Neill The Many Loves of Jimmy Swinnerton Jimmy Swinnerton’s life was…
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Can America Save Australian Comic Strips? Insanity Streak Comes to Comics Kingdom
With Australian newspapers giving comic strips the boot (see here and here) it looks like it is up to America…
CSotD: Geezers and Good Guys
I’m going to assume — given lead time for comic strips — that this Taylor Swift reference in Brewster Rockit…
Comic Strip Lives Outside Newspaper Pages – International Edition
Whitehall has today been accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ by the SNP [Scottish National Party] after claiming the beloved Dundee-born comic…
Jack Ohman Expands S.F. Chronicle Role
From Editorial Page Editor Matthew Fleischer: The San Francisco Chronicle is delighted to announce that Jack Ohman will become a contributing…
CSotD: Whited sepulchres and other delights
As Jeff Stahler (AMS) notes, the writers’ strike in Hollywood has been settled and, as he also notes, that doesn’t…
Robert Stringer – RIP
Architect and cartoonist Robert Stringer has passed away. Robert Preston Stringer, III April 28, 1948 – July 24, 2023 From…
The Long Lost Weekend
While distracted for a large part of the weekend, the comic strips weren’t completely ignored. Will it go or will…
CSotD: Candor and quibbling
I guess they call it “Candorville” (KFS) for a reason. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a cartoonist run…
The Gannett History of Comic Strips
“In the first half of the 19th century, newspapers had been around for centuries but had very few images because…
The Gannett 34
The USA TODAY Network/Gannett group has released a list of the selected 34 comic strips and panels that local editors…
CSotD: Sunday Potpourri
We’ll start with a non-political one. I’m disappointed in the new Sunday Ben Bolt (KFS-Vintage) story arc. Ben Bolt is…
The Last Award Deadline of 2023
The National Press Foundation is reminding journalists that the deadline for applications for NPF’s 2023 annual awards is Oct. 2,…
An Autumn Almanac, 2023
It’s all happening at the CXC on September 27 through October 1, 2023. Comic book writers and artists, editorial cartoonists,…
CSotD: The Company We Choose
It was the Pig Fair last SeptemberA day I well rememberI was walking up and down in drunken prideWhen my…